On 17 May 2011, two invoices were sent by a British telecommunications' provider using the PEPPOL* Infrastructure and were successfully received in production by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT).

A government study in Sweden has concluded that there should be a national database under state management for advertising the calls for tenders of public authorities, it was announced on 26 April 2011.

From 1 June 2011, Maltese Government tender documents will be available to purchase only through the website of the Department of Contracts, it was announced in April 2011.

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) presented a workshop at the University of Piraeus (Athens), the outcome of  which was the successful set-up of Open e-PRIOR, as a test implementation, on a Linux Server hosted in Piraeus, making Greece the first European Country to use Open e-PRIOR since 8 March 2011.

In the six weeks of its operation, the new version of www.acquistinretepa.it, the national  Italian eProcurement platform for the purchasing of public goods and services, handled over 12 000 orders (deriving from framework contracts and eMarketplace) and posted 2 500 calls for tenders on the MEPA t

The Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) is opening up the private market of value added network providers (and others), allowing them to become access points for electronic invoicing.

The UK Government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a free public procurement eCourse for businesses.

The very first two electronic Virtual Company Dossiers (VCD) have recently been successfully created by PEPPOL.AT and delivered to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finances.

On 1 March 2011, the Pan-European Public Procurement OnLine project (PEPPOL) reached an important milestone when the first invoice was successfully transferred via PEPPOL solutions.